The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-18
TOBREAKGROUNDTO'DAY
THE NEW STREET RAILROAD COM
PANY AT WORK.

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Track Laying to Begin on Bay Street
This Morning Cars to be Running to
the Ocean Steamship Wharves by
New Years Day, and the Entire Line
North of Anderson to be Completed
by May /.
The new street railroad company will
begin laying its tracks to-day. Ground
will be broken this morning on the west
side of Bull street in front of the City Elk
change. The stringers are all ready to be
laid, and the iron is at the Ocean Steam
ship Companys wharves.
Mai. Smart, President of the Company,
with City Surveyor Howard and the MEM
bers of the City Council Committee on
Streets and Lanes, met at noon yesterday
and stalsed out the route through Bay street
The track will be laid on the river side Of
the street, five feet north of the City and
Suburban railways tracks, and will paral-
lei the Whitaker street line AS far as the foot
of Whitaker street. At Jefferson it will be
brought into the middle of Bay street and
will extend west through Bay and Indian
streets to the Ocean Steamship wharveS and
the Vale Royal Mills.
THE LINE OF THE ROAD.
The Whitaker street line, and the Abercorn
street lines will also be paralleed as far
east as Abercorn street, where the new tracks
will be brought into the middle of the street
and will RIM through Bay to East Broad,
through East Broad to President street,
through President to Randolph through
Randolph to Liberty, west on Liberty TO
East Broad, and then south through East
Broad to Bolton. This will form the cas-
tern division of the road.
The BAY street line will be intersected
at West Broad street by the line running
south through West Broad to Liberty, east
on Liberty to Montgomery, south through
Montgomery to Seventh, then across the
southern extension to Habersham street and
thence to Bolton. The entire line will be
about eight miles in length.
Mai Smart said yesterday that he ex-
poets to have all the track north of Ander-
son street laid and the road in operation by
May l. The track to the Ocean Steamship
wharves will be laid first, and if nothing
unforeseen occurs cars viii be running from
the City Exchange within thirty days.
GOING AHEAD WITH THE WORK.
The rolling stock has not yet been or
dered, but will be had here by the time the
company is ready for it. The road will be
built standard gauge with fifty-pound rails.
The stables and car-sheds have not been
definitely located, but will probably be
built at Vale Royal, the western terminus
of the road.
The company has ample means at its
command to build and equip the road
There has been some talk of litigation on
the part Of the City and Suburban Railroad
Company. which claims the right of the
streets under the terms of its charter, and
it has been rumored that proceedings would
be instituted to prevent the new company
from going ahead with its work, but moth
ing has developed. Maj. Smart said yester-
day, after the arrangements for breaking
ground to-day were made, that he has re-
ceived no notification of any proceedings
Alderman Thomas Chairman Of the Street
and Lane Committee, was asked lin regard
to the matter and he replied that he did not
see how any movement of this kind can sue
coed; that the City and Suburban company
has forfeited whatever exclusive rights it
did have to the streets by failing to com
ply with the terms of its charter, and he
saw nothing TO hinder the new company
from going ahead and completing its road.